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...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, conspicuously absent from his first email. FlyBy wonders if this caused any unrest within the Registrar this past week. He also really went for conciseness here, cutting out "Friday" when referencing "May 29th" (a whole week after finals are over! First agenda for the summer, eh?), and saying "I encourage you to complete all of your evaluations this term" instead of "I encourage you to complete evaluations for all of your courses this term"--saving you one word of reading...
...would like to see more consistency across the board in terms of advocating against the death penalty, for living wages, and other issues that are clearly on the Church’s agenda,” Boyd said. —Staff writer Elias J. Groll can be reached egroll@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang can be reached at ajiang@fas.harvard.edu...
...Regardless of developments in Afghanistan, the Obama administration should seriously reevaluate our current security posture in South Asia and devise a comprehensive diplomatic agenda for the region that calls for the stabilization of Afghanistan and Pakistan, the eradication of the Taliban and the drug trade, and a positive role for India, a fellow democracy that has proven to be a reliable partner since the bilateral nuclear treaty of 2006. Only a comprehensive South Asian agenda that takes all of these complex variables into account has any chance of permanently resolving the core issues at stake...
...reasons to be scrutinizing the Bush Administration these days, and Congress is on the case on most of them. But from the Obama Administration's point of view, there are equally compelling reasons not to get distracted by public trials that do little to further the President's ambitious agenda of health care reform, the re-regulation of Wall St. and a bill to slow global warming, not to mention dealing with the ongoing financial crisis and ground wars on two fronts. And those two competing perspectives are fueling a defining debate between the Democratic Congress and the Democratic White...
...terror detainees. But the fact that the nation, or at least the national media, spent the next few days debating the finer points of the insult slap and waterboarding, shows how easily the search for justice can overshadow everything else. Obama is now at a juncture in his agenda where he will need to bring together as many lawmakers from both sides as he can to pass sweeping changes to the country's education, health care and environmental and energy systems. (See TIME's photos of presidential first dogs...